Minigolf, and a Mini-trip to Epcot

I had fun this past weekend. Friday, after work Bionca and I met up with Dana and John, and their two sons to play mini-golf at Congo River Adventure Golf. Its been a few years since I have been there. Not much has changed. Including the nasty blue water. I mean really… Does it have to be that blue? It looks like 1000 Flushes, but seems like that was about 5000 flushes ago. The place isn’t too bad, and really it is a lot of fun, but I think that it could use a new coat of paint, and completely replace the water. We played one round, and had a real fun time there. Of course, I didn’t do anywhere as good as I would have liked. I think that I was 12 over par, and JT was 9 over. I did get a thrill from getting a hold in one on a par 4 hole. It was a pretty unconventional shot that I usually do on that hole, where you hit the ball off course, where it jumps over some rocks, and bounces further down the course. This by-passes the usually necessary first shot to get it to the second level, and then a third to get it to the final level, or the possibility of missing the hole for the direct shot to the third level. Logan was really cute. He didn’t really get the concept of the game at all. He would hit the ball in some wild direction, and then run and pick it up. He looked so proud of himself.

Saturday, Bionca and I met up with Dana and her sons at Epcot. Since we left late, we didn’t get there until 6:30 p.m. and the park closed at 9:00 p.m.. We basically went to the Living Seas and Living with the Land. The two main attractions that we visited were the Ask Crush attraction at The Living Seas. Its an interactive show with Crush, from Finding Nemo. It is very well done. Basically it is an actor( maybe a team of them) behind the scenes controlling the digital puppet. The show is largely ad-libbed, and the character talks about his children asking about the lives of humans, while answering the questions of the lives of turtles. All with a Californian surfer accent. This time all the questions that the kids asked were basically related to turtle’s versus sharks, and despite the repetitive nature of the questions, the actor gave different information every time. Educational and entertaining. I loved it.

The other attraction that we saw was Timon and Pumba’s Environmental Fable (or something like that). This one was a stinker. We waited 15 minutes in a holding room to file into a theater to watch a 10 minute short featuring the character for about 3 of it, while Mathew Brodric playing Simba gave spun boring and generic tale about the beginning of the environmental movement. It mostly featured canned footage, and in all respects was worthless. It didn’t carry enough information to be educational, enough heart to call viewers to action, nor enough story or production value to entertain. If you go, avoid this one.

After that, we ate at Living with the Land, and by the time that was finished, Future World was closed. Logan isn’t big on loud noises, so we didn’t stay for that, but he did want to ride the monorail, so we took that to the Transportation Center, and back. What can I say, he is easily entertained.

Saturday, Bionca had to work at 4 p.m. We got into a bit of an argument early in the day when I wanted to play DDO for a little while. I generally only play 2 nights a week. I had asked her previously if she wanted to do something that day, and she didn’t show interest in anything but watching TV shows that I just wasn’t interested in. When I started the game, she got upset and said something to the effect of, “All you ever want to do is play that game.” I thought that this was terribly unfair, since as I mentioned, I generally play for only a few hours a week, and then usually when Bionca is doing something else. When I confronted her about it, she got more upset and stormed off unwilling to talk. I know that there is something else going on, but I am not sure what. It was a definite over-reaction to me playing, and actually if she had just asked me to not play right then, I wouldn’t have. Actually, I was planning on waiting until 3:00 p.m., after she left for work. When she wouldn’t talk about what was upsetting her despite trying several times to talk to her, I just kept playing. I still have yet to really talk to her, since she got in when I was asleep.

The only thing that I can think of is that she wanted to spend some time with me before work, and felt that I was abandoning her, but as I said I didn’t plan on being on long (long enough to check the Guild Message of the Day), and see what was going on that night. To add to that, she was watching some show or other (I can not remember if it was some bad “reality-TV” show or one of the many home-improvement/make-over shows. In any case, I was not interested in the least, and bored. I don’t care about sports, I hate “reality-TV” in general, I am not big on watching make-overs, or home improvement shows, and I can’t stand info-mercials. I enjoy playing video games. I don’t see why that is a problem.

I worry sometimes when she gets like that. When she gets upset, she can be difficult to deal with. If I am doing something that is upsetting her, I understand her being upset, but in that case, we need to talk. She generally tries to shut me out while she is mad. I try to talk immediately, and it usually fails. Typically, I am only able to talk to her later, after she has cooled off. Sometimes that is the next day, and a few times it was a few days later. If there is anything in my marriage that I worry about, it is that. When we have problems, I want to resolve them immediately (or soon after a short cooling-off time, but no more than an hour).

I am going to call her. It is getting later in the day, and she will be heading to work soon. Hopefully she will be in a calmer state of mind.